While the Democrats and media are busy ringing out their panties and repeating the phrase "broken the marble ceiling" ad nauseum, Our Fearless Führer has appended one of his infamous signing statements to the postal reform act saying, essentially, that the government can read your mail whenever it thinks there might be something interesting in it.

It's interesting to note that this is the same strategy my mom employed in her late '80's War on My Sister Dating Boys, and I think we all know how that one turned out. But why learn from history? To be fair, you never know if that christmas card to Mohammad Islam might say, "See you at the car-bombing of the Golden Gate Bridge in mid-March, and a Happy New Year!" And I think we all agree that if we have nothing to hide, we shouldn't mind some civil servant reading our mail, listening to our calls, or peeking in our windows.

If you're as big a fan of Bush as I am, you know he's made extensive use of signing statements throughout his presidency. I think of it as his way of saying to everyone in the govenment and the country, "I'm going to do whatever I want, anyway, so you might want to lube up now." The American Bar Association put it a little differently, calling it "contrary to the rule of law and our constitutional system of separation of powers." Tomato or tomahto.


Vice President of the Postal Service Tom Day, looking swollen and greasy above, considers the Playboy spread of Battlestar Gallactica star Tricia Helfer to be exactly the kind of "exigent circumstances" the President's signing statement describes. He will search that magazine and he will seize his penis.

Analogcabin @ 8:09 AM
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